Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:27:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of NX bit support. Message-ID: <200604041227.k34CRMnX094547@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20060404120309.GC62595@sysadm.stc>
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Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> wrote: > I'm very new to FreeBSD on AMD64 (really, I dont have AMD64 based PC), > so I have two questions: This isn't answering your questions, but it might be helpful anyway: If you want to try FreeBSD/amd64, but you don't have AMD64 hardware, then you can run it inside qemu-system-x86_64 on a FreeBSD/i386 host. > 2) and also, can I use amd64-jail on FreeBSD/i386 on AMD64 host > (I think this is not possible)? That's not possible, but you can run it inside qemu, if you need it (see above). The performance will not be very good, of course, because all of the amd64 instructions have to be emulated in software, but it's good enough for testing and checking things out. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing' just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard." -- Peter van der Linden
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